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MACARTHUR: "The possibility of a huge amphibious force landing all that crowd on the mainland might not be feasible . . . They could infiltrate into Indo-China. They could go in small forays and come back . . . Even as a threat they would have relieved the pressure on my command...
Nehru disapproves of the Russian tendency to seize other countries, following the pattern of the Czars. Nevertheless, he professes to believe that China's Mao Tsetung and Indo-China's Ho Chi Minh are essentially national patriots; he denies that they are controlled by Moscow. When Chinese Communist forces invaded Tibet (TIME, Nov. 6), Nehru protested vigorously. But when Peking agreed to some Nehru proposals for a peaceful Tibetan settlement, he seemed to feel confirmed in his theory that the Chinese Communists will behave like gentlemen if treated right...
With the Communists held in check in north Indo-China, the main problem facing General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is the building of a native Viet Nam army. His aim is a force of 120,000 to take over the main burden of defense...
Behind the lack of officers lies the central, still-unsolved problem of Indo-China. Many competent Vietnamese refuse to join either army or government because they do not know whether the Communists or the French will win the civil war. The French call them Attentistes (literally, those who wait, or fence sitters). Says De Lattre: "To have a strong army, you must have a strong government...
Veteran French troops in Indo-China have a nickname for General de Lattre de Tassigny: "DDT." Puzzled De Lattre asked a correspondent: "Is it sympathetic?" Last week De Lattre, informed that it was sympathetic, gave Communist guerrillas behind his front lines the DDT treatment. In a vast, sweeping movement in the Red River delta, he surprised and stormed several fortified Communist villages. At week's end the guerrillas had lost 300 dead, 600 prisoners...